God of War: Ascension rated R18+ in Australia; cannot be sold in Queensland

Steve Wright writes, "Kotaku Australia has broken news of God of War: Ascension‘s R18+ rating, and more importantly, its subsequent inability to be sold in Queensland stores this March.

A national R18+ rating for video games exists, but individual Australian states and territories must pass their own legistation to allow games to be sold. As Queensland has yet to pass legislation for an R18+ rating in games, the newly classified God of War: Ascension cannot be sold in the state until this is rectified."
(Culture, God of War: Ascension, PS3)

I think they're just going a bit over the top now because we have an R rating, any game with some gore is automatically R rated.

Starship Troopers was MA15, it it more gory than that?

And WHY is it up to individual states. There should be a blanket law across the whole wide brown land. It took long enough to get the law passed, now they want to break it down further to have smaller squabbles?

Anyway, I doubt they will be able to stop anyone in Qld who wants to from buying it on eBay.

PS Bought Total Recall with the GoW demo in Qld at Christmas. Thats contraband now.

I hate the R18+ in Australia. Everyone espected it to allow the gory or violent games into Aus, but instead all it did was bump up future MA15+ games to the R18+ level. We will never see Mortal Kombat (2011) or future games alike.

Thank god I'm in Melbourne.. if all they've done is make ma15+ games to r18+, I'll be pissed. We have waited so long for r18. Guaranteed the next cod will be r18+ instead of the usual ma15. F**k the system.

Damn that SUCKS.. I was thinking about moving to Australia..how hard would it be to import it from Amazon or something?? Doesn't your government realize those who really want it are just going to have to work a little bit harder to get it??